User:Pelagic/sandbox/j/2019/12/28

Sunday 28 December 2019.

Darkiñung

Revisiting the °Darkinung / Darkinjung / Darkinyung / Darkinyung language / Darkinung people issue.

Found an academic thesis that may well be the most definitive source: Ford, Geoffrey Eric (2010). Darkiñung Recognition: An Analysis of the Historiography for the Aborigines from the Hawkesbury-Hunter Ranges to the Northwest of Sydney: [commonly written with English characters as 'Darkinung', Darkinyung or Darkinjung]. University of Sydney..

According to Ford, Darkiñung country extended as far south as Eastern Creek near Blacks Town, and that many peope now identifed as 'Darug' ancestry actually have Darkiñung ancestors.

See also Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of Australia and Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/Confirmed language names at AIATSIS. I was inclined to follow Ford in spelling it Darkiñung, but will defer to Kwami's suggestion that we use AIATSIS spelling Darkinyung.

I want to put this on one of the articles' talk pages, but not sure which one:

Darkinung redirects to Darkinung people (Kwami Feb 2019), prev. to Darkinjung since 2006.
Darkinjung used to be about the people, was changed in 2011 by an IP-editor to be about the land council for a different geographical area. It has the edit history for both.
Darkinyung is the AIATSIS spelling. It redirects to Darkinjung language, not people. Was pointed to Darkinyung language, but a bot removed the double redirect.
Darkiñung redirects to Darkinjung.
Darkinung language, Darkinyung language, and Darkiñung language all redirect to Darkinjung language, and all have no changes since creation in 2006.
Darkinjung people redirects to Darkinjung, which is now about the land council; Darkinung people is a separate stub, created 2017; Darkinyung people and Darkiñung people pages don't exist.
Darkinjung Land Council doesn't yet exist.
Special:PrefixIndex/Darkin also reveals Darkinjang, Darkinjang language, Darkinoong, Darkinoong language. All redirects, unchanged since 2006.